May 24, 20236 min readThis Is My Story #7: To Dream the Impossible DreamWhat I find ironic is that I was simultaneously filling out divorce paperwork and seminary application paperwork. That is a story in...
May 24, 20235 min readThis Is My Story #6: Midlife ReckoningPeople admired me as the godly full quiver homeschool mother with boundless creativity. I reveled in that reputation, at least until my...
May 24, 20233 min readThis Is My Story #5: Full Quiver, Full ThrottleIn the meantime, we had told our pastor about this zealous group of churches. Duly impressed, he moved his family to Maryland where their...
May 24, 20233 min readThis Is My Story #4: College and Courtship, Of Course!Just after New Year’s Day 1981, my parents moved us again, this time to northern Kentucky. I didn’t want to go to a new high school for...
May 24, 20233 min readThis Is My Story #3: Preppy TeenIn the Spring of 1977, Dad’s company transferred him to Baltimore and I promptly morphed from hippy to preppy. Cowl neck sweaters,...
Jan 18, 20212 min readThis Is My Story #2: Hippy ChildWhen I first “found Jesus” at the age of 12, I was not in familiar territory at all. I was not raised in a Christ-filled home. My...
Jan 18, 20213 min readThis Is My Story #1: IntroductionLift Up Your Head and Laugh “Lift up your head and laugh!” He spoke as a prophet, but what did he know those thirty odd years ago? What...